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From: "Frank" <frank@progressivevp.com>
>Two: You made no judgments as the to rightness or wrongness of such behavior.
He might not have come right out and said it, but I think Mickey's opinion about which behavior is better is clear.
>Or are you instead saying that IT SHOULD be human nature to be greedy and self serving? (If this is what you mean, I can only hope you are wrong.)
Ayn Rand regarded altruism as a great evil and selfishness as the ultimate virtue. I think what she was really saying is that justice is the great value. Mickey's example shows why. I can't remember the details of when and where it was or what he was comparing it to, but an American colonist wrote about how those who reaped the benefits of their own labor by owning their own land were more productive. It's the American way.
>What I'd like to know is if they made Greenpeace members split tips if their productivity would go down. I believe poker dealers might be a slightly biased sample
More idealistic people may be able to "hold out" longer, but they still face "worker burnout" if they neglect themselves too much.
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